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pond plants

Bog Gardens and Cut Flowers

November 16, 2009

The bog garden consists merely of very wet ground in which a host of interesting plants flourish. It must, of course, be beside a pond or along a stream. In spring the brown woolly fronds of cinnamon fern will first show themselves, uncoiling as they rise. The swamp rose-mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos) will give a wealth [...]

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Pond Edges

November 2, 2009

It is in the treatment of the margin that we make or mar a pond’s natural beauty. There is no one way in which native waters always meet the land, but there are some ways in which they never do. Nature never made broad borders of concrete or brick or hewn stone. Therefore avoid these [...]

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